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How a Chicago Mom Turned Dumpster Diving into a Full-time Job
WTTW ^ | April 5, 2022 | Evan Garcia

Posted on 04/08/2022 11:07:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Angel Williams holds what appears to be the first issue of the iconic music magazine Rolling Stone, published in Nov. 1967 and featuring John Lennon on the cover, on April 1, 2022. Williams found the magazine while dumpster diving about a year ago.

1 posted on 04/08/2022 11:07:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

LOL


2 posted on 04/08/2022 11:08:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Glamorous Garbage draws
More than Flies!


3 posted on 04/08/2022 11:23:50 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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To: Scarlett156

Ping


4 posted on 04/08/2022 11:43:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Big Red Badger

I had an uncle that was a driller on big oil rigs. He was very unassuming. On his days off he (and me) would go up to the local dumps and scavenge for metal and anything else we might find useful. (Lots of hard hats and boots from oil workers that lasted a week, got paid and left!)

I thought he must have been pretty hard up.

As we were putting stuff away in his huge garage with all of the shelves and boxes he said he was waiting for copper to get to x amount of dollars, and aluminum to y, etc. Then he said how he divided it up into about 50 pounds a box.

I tried to make a quick inventory of the 100’s of boxes he had stored. I guessed he had $40k worth of metal.

And then when the other workers told me how much he made as a top driller I was amazed. But - he liked to do it, and he made some money too. He really liked exploring for the old dumps from the various ghost towns where he would do it just like gold mining (which he did too).

Wade along in the creeks looking for old garbage, and then follow it up to the “mother lode” of the old garbage dump! He had all sorts of old bottles, buttons, etc.


5 posted on 04/08/2022 11:59:30 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: nickcarraway

I knew of a guy, about ten years ago, who did dumpster diving at the end of each month to take advantage of apartment dwellers who threw out stuff rather than take stuff with them when they moved.

He said he made an additional couple of thousand doing that.


6 posted on 04/09/2022 12:05:24 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Ask a liberal if they have a soul or do they just collect them from lives they destroy. )
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To: humblegunner
Seriously? Somebody made a thread about your mom? This is unacceptable and over the line. I suggest you report this to the mods. Again.


7 posted on 04/09/2022 12:07:12 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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Report hell.
I was helping your feeb pal with his question.

Nasty bastard didn’t even thank me.


8 posted on 04/09/2022 12:12:15 AM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: nickcarraway
A man found a perfume bottle... in a litter bin somewhere in Salisbury and gave it to a woman who sprayed it on her wrist.
9 posted on 04/09/2022 12:25:38 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve certainly shopped at Goodwill, et al. I’d dumpster dive, if I saw something I liked.


10 posted on 04/09/2022 12:36:29 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: bagster; humblegunner

I saw that as well yesterday - just SMH /LOL and thinking . . . I knew it was only a matter of time before “bumblestunner” got upset enough at the disrespect around here to finally bring in an Admin Moderator.


11 posted on 04/09/2022 12:37:03 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: humblegunner
Report hell. I was helping your feeb pal with his question.

Back on topic:

Take Moms to the dollar store so she stays outta the dumpsters. Those things are FILTHY.


12 posted on 04/09/2022 12:38:32 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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The jackass suggested asking a moderator.
Too damned bad if it made him look like a tard.


13 posted on 04/09/2022 12:40:06 AM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: atc23; humblegunner
I knew it was only a matter of time before “bumblestunner” got upset enough at the disrespect around here to finally bring in an Admin Moderator.

Nukkas be disrespeckin. Better axt somebody.

Amirite, Bumpkin?


14 posted on 04/09/2022 12:41:10 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: humblegunner
Report hell. I was helping your feeb pal with his question. Nasty bastard didn’t even thank me.

Hey, wait. Did you just talk about somebody without pinging them? Isn't that against the rules of The World According To Humblegunner?

That's your second infraction in one day and it's going on your permanent record.

#StraightenUpAndFlyRight


15 posted on 04/09/2022 12:45:06 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Oh noes, not the permanent record.


16 posted on 04/09/2022 12:47:49 AM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: humblegunner
The jackass suggested asking a moderator. Too damned bad if it made him look like a tard.

Trivia Question:

Who gets stitches and winds up in ditches?

s _ _ t c h _ s

(would you like to buy a vowel?)


17 posted on 04/09/2022 12:49:38 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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You can spin things all you want, but you know the truth.
Fact is you just don’t like it and your feeb pal got his
ass handed to him with sprinkles and a bow on it.


18 posted on 04/09/2022 1:01:52 AM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: nickcarraway

Does her home have bed bugs


19 posted on 04/09/2022 1:04:42 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: humblegunner
You can spin things all you want, but you know the truth. Fact is you just don’t like it and your feeb pal got his ass handed to him with sprinkles and a bow on it.

Yes, you're right. You told on him real good. It's always the best policy to notify the authorities rather than to mete out vigilante justice. We are, after all, a civil society with rules and laws and stuff.

#NotTheOutlawThatYouPretendToBe


20 posted on 04/09/2022 1:08:00 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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